Rosie Ortega Ms. Lehmann English 1-3 19 September 2018 Summary of “Once Upon A Time” Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon A Time,” a short story, tries to note that what you try to protect could be the thing you hurt. In the beginning, Gordimer is awaken by a noise in her house that scares her. Leading her to invent a story. The author starts the bedtime story with an upper class suburban family, made up of a mom, dad, and young boy, from those who live outside of the city. Over time segregated crimes escalate which makes the family increase security, including putting in a tall wall adorned with razor wire. Near the end of the story, the boy goes out to play and is mutilated when he crawls inside the razor wire.
Rosie Ortega Ms. Lehmann English 1-3 19 September 2018 Summary of “Rituals of Memory” Kimberly Blaeser’s essay, “Rituals of Memory,” argues that we always come back to our roots. Blaeser begins her essay with a metaphor that shows readers her opinion about how relationships to family and community work. She uses her memories of the Legionnaires as evidence for her claim. She talks about having a double life. In Blaeser’s German Catholic side of life, she would go to a Catholic School where she learned more about her American culture. She then describes her Native American education, composed of memories and dreams about the past. She then claims that you always go back to your roots, because the define us.
Rosie Ortega Ms. Lehmann English 1-3 19 September 2018 Summary of “Night Calls” A short story by Lisa Fugard, “Night Calls,” is about having and giving hope. In the beginning of the story, the narrator and her father’s relationship is distant. The death of the narrator’s mother sends her to a boarding school. Her father nearly gives up everything and is about to leave when he is put in charge of a rare heron. After acquiring the heron, her father starts to act differently and his relationship with the narrator improves. Later in the story, the heron escapes the cage. The bird calls each night for ten days but then stops. The narrator finds the heron, dead. The narrator buries the heron so her father won’t find it. Still, her father starts to lose hope. One night, she hides and makes the heron bird call to give her dad hope.
Summary Reflection
List one thing you’ve learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like? To have in a beginning of the summary with the genre, author, and a title. Also, picking out major plot points.
Identify a specific revision you were asked to make and explain why (this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you revise? What did you learn? Looking to make sure that they had all the convections of the summary correct. They learned that they all have basically the same beginning with the author, title, genre, and the big idea to make sure everything makes sense.
What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment? When you start your summary you would have to start by a sentence that included the author, title, genre, and the big idea. The next thing you do is pick out the Main points and write them out in chronological order. Then I went through and made sure I didn’t write an opinion.
Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it? I would improve my summaries by putting more time and work into them. Giving more description into my main points.
What is one thing you’re proud of in this paper? I am proud that I included everything I needed to add to the summaries and gave a pretty good description and reasons of why or why stuff happened.